Author : Don Delillo
What is it about : The story jumped from an art museum showing the film "Psycho" with Norman Bates, Mother and Janet Leigh (because as stated in the book, nobody remembered the victim's name) in R-E-A-L-L-Y S-L-O-W motion as an art piece, to a retired secret war adviser being interviewed in a remote "ranch" somewhere in the American wilderness which ended with the mysterious disappearance of the adviser's daughter. The ending of the book returned back to the museum showing the Psycho film.
Some thoughts after having read the book : Mesmerising, sure ! There were beautiful sentences and sublime philosophies throughout the book; the disappearance of the daughter in the middle of "somewhere south of nowhere" was eerily haunting and the portrayal of a slow moving film "Psycho" (shower scenes and all) in a museum was mind-boggling. By the way, Omega Point was not some military target or operation but the self-styled description of a mental state about consciousness.
Would I recommend this book to you : Described by critics as "structurally satisfying", "demands slow and attentive reading and re-reading", "severely thoughtful" and "one of his least cryptic". So there, an arty book for the purists may be; hot non-stop actions seekers should look elsewhere.
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